On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 the mental interface of
Kevin Coyner told:
>
> I always thought that with 'kill -9 PID' you could clean up just about
> any process, but I've run into one that just won't go ...
>
> sakura:~$ ps aux |grep xmms
> kosuke 9026 0.0 0.9 14460 4932 ? D 00:16 0:00 xmms
> kosuke 9027 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 00:16 0:00 [xmms <defunct>]
>
> I've tried 'kill -9 9026 9027', but every time I go back and ps/grep it,
> it's still there. And in the meantime, if I try to start a new xmms, it
> will start a new PID in addition to 9026, but the program itself won't
> show up.
>
> Brainwashed from too many early years in the MS world, I'm tempted to
> reboot. But hoping there's a better, Linux way to clean this up.
killall -9 xmms
HTH
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Numeric stability is probably not all that
important when you're guessing;-)